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TIL, with a running start, Usain Bolt ran a 100m in 8.70 seconds in 2009

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kO8o5 TIL that there are currently about 48000 different Christian denominations, and every year that number grows by around 1000
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JYoY4 TIL only female mosquitoes bite. This is because they require blood to produce eggs. Male mosquitoes don’t feed on blood. Instead, they eat nectar and juices produced by plants.
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jNWAR TIL Cato the Elder(a notoriously uptight grouch) expelled a man from the roman senate for embracing his wife in public and in front of their daughter. Cato went on to say that he never hugs his own wife, except during thunderstorms, and added that "thunderstorms make him a really happy man"